History

Nothing is known of the early life of the
criminal that became known as the Trapper until he appeared in Gotham City in
mid-1949. As criminals and costumed vigilantes began a war of increasing
technology in the post-war science boom, the Trapper became convinced that they
and the police were too reliant on modern methods and that a series of crimes
using more traditional methods would catch the tech-dependent authorities
unprepared.

His initial targets
were a bank courier Mack and his friend Budd, an off-duty police officer
providing security service to bank who accompanied Mack on his runs. The
Trapper kidnapped Mack and left Budd seriously wounded. Using knowledge
acquired from Mack, he conducted a series of daring robberies, ultimately
attracting the attention of the Green Lantern. After interrogating Budd on
his encounter with the Trapper, he intercepted the woodsman robbing an
armored
truck using lamp-posts as a log jam. As the Trapper threw his axe, Green
Lantern easily deflected the blade, not realizing the handle was a wooden
boomerang, which circled back and felled the hero. The Trapper then
retreated to his lair in the sewers beneath Gotham and bound Green Lantern with
wood-based ropes, inadvertently applying the heroes one weakness: wood.
The Trapper disposes on the hero by tossing him into the sewer drain to drown
but the Lantern uses the cement lining to break the ropes and quickly subdue the
Trapper, rescuing Mack. The Trapper is then presumably sent to prison.

It is unlikely the Trapper even came to
trial before the House Un-American Activities Committee forced the JSA to
disband in 1951. His subsequent activities, if he ever returned to
crime, have not been recorded.

Multiversity

To date, no alternative histories of the Trapper have been
revealed.

Power and Abilities: The Trapper was an experienced
and skilled woodsman and hunter, well-versed in an extensive array of traps and
snares. He was an above-average specimen of normal human with high but not
super-human levels of strength and agility. He deployed a novel array of
methods based on classic hunting and trapping techniques, though despite his
assertions to the contrary, did use some novel engineering (i.e. electrically
wired boots to shock pursuers).

Weaknesses and Limitations: Without
his armament, the
Trapper was a normal human and could be arrested as such.